walnut

coxy · September 29, 2013, 07:51:06 PM

wanted to know how to plant walnuts if you plant them green or dry and do you have to remove the outer skin or leave it on thanks

beenthere · September 29, 2013, 08:30:23 PM

Easier to handle if you shed the nut from the hull (outer skin which quickly turns to black mush). Then put in the ground just the same as the squirrels do it. No need to dry the nut.

To protect them from the squirrels digging them up, some use tin cans and remove both ends and slip that down around the nut. Apparently the squirrels can't get to the nut, and the can eventually rusts away.

coxy · September 30, 2013, 06:47:22 AM

thanks beenthere sorry forgot to ask how deep you put them in the ground and should I put a small fence a round them so the deer don't eat the shoots

nk14zp · September 30, 2013, 07:59:03 AM

When do you sprinkle the gold pixie dust on it to get the million dollar tree? And where can you get the dust?

beenthere · September 30, 2013, 10:43:31 AM

:D
coxy
No more than a couple inches in the ground.
And the deer don't care for walnut seedlings.

mesquite buckeye · September 30, 2013, 11:31:12 AM

We just wait for a rain, then stomp them in with the heel, skin and all after they are ripe. In our clay loam to silt loam soils, the skins sort of just stay on the surface and the nut gets shoved in deep enough to stay moist until the root emerges the following spring. Seems to work for us. Just grab a 5 gallon bucket full and go. Very easy and pretty fast too. If they hit a good spot they win seed bingo and become million dollar walnuts. ;D ;D ;D ;D 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

coxy · October 04, 2013, 07:43:45 AM

not looking for million dollar trees just thousands & thousands :D not to greedy and did not know that deer wont eat walnuts :'( thanks for the info could some one send me some silver dust don't like gold

;D 8) 8)